The Road to $5,000,000
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
May 5, 2017 7:48am CST
I started being an author at the end of last year and have published a few books here and there in the time since. One of the things I have enjoyed doing is keeping a daily record of my profit totals and calculating out how long it will take to hit certain higher goals.
As of now it will take me 5,811 years to reach 5 million dollars! I think I need to write some more books. XD
For comparison, if you managed to make the myLot payout of $5 a month every month, you will make $60 a year. At that rate it will take you another 83,333 years to reach the same goal. So yeah, I'd say we all need to work a little harder to get to greater heights!
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
5 May 17
I write in my native language and I write here. I will not lose my time keeping a record of my earnings.
The one and only time this proved reasonable was when I checked how much money I spent in ciggies. I decided I´d stop smoking and thus save enough money to have a good vacation each year.3 people like this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
You're talking budgeting more than tracking the record of earnings (and I wouldn't do that here, it's already done by the system). I track them because it's important for me to know as business information. Also, it's a game of mine. I get inspired by numbers. The more I make, the faster and better I do. If I have a large goal, I like to chop away at it until it is much smaller.
The road to $5 million just shows fun goals and targets. :P
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
5 May 17
@OneOfMany Still, I quit smoking. And that would be budgeting as I did not think about health.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
@marguicha That you quit is the important thing. :)
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@supercalifredge (606)
• United States
7 May 17
This site is definitely not made to make anyone a lot of money. And writing can be very difficult.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
At least I wasn't too unreasonable with the number I selected. If I picked one million I'd get too hopeful though!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 May 17
is the number at least getting smaller? of years needed I mean, lol
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 May 17
Yes, in fact, since I wrote the post it's dropped 507 years. As I continue to write and profit, it will continue to drop. However, I won't get excited until we're talking decades, since someone earning 40k a year would take 125 years to get to 5 million. I haven't even reached 4 figures through profits yet!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
Go, go! 83 thousand years and you can be a multi-millionaire too!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
Not to mention by then with inflation everyone will have 5 million in their pocket.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
15 May 17
I guess you have allowed for your purchases here too.
Most of us would have been millionaires by now, if we hadn't wasted so much of our moolah. I have probably wasted more than a million in my lifetime, but I have very little to show for it now...LOL...
Of course, I do have my fond memories of my driving my jaguar for a few years, but seeing I was still paying it off, for another long ten years after I got rid of it, well, I wasted a lot on a luxury car, which I couldn't really afford, in the first place.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
15 May 17
This is just total earnings through writing. Of course I'm spending it as I go!
After all, we need money to live. But if I can push myself to earn with this secondary (and hopefully primary eventually) job, then I can make enough to reach my goals one day. If everyone built like they were in need of a fallout shelter, they'd be able to save a lot of money by building efficiently and growing their own food.
Sustainability has been politicized, when really it is just common sense. It would be nice for the damage done to it to be undone.
After all, we need money to live. But if I can push myself to earn with this secondary (and hopefully primary eventually) job, then I can make enough to reach my goals one day. If everyone built like they were in need of a fallout shelter, they'd be able to save a lot of money by building efficiently and growing their own food.
Sustainability has been politicized, when really it is just common sense. It would be nice for the damage done to it to be undone.1 person likes this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
16 May 17
@innertalks You can eat paper money, but I wouldn't touch it! Too many bacteria cultures on them from everyone handling it all the time.
Yes, it's ironic that the only way to get away from money is to first accumulate enough to do so. And by then, you are shackled to the process. It's an awful cycle.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
16 May 17
@OneOfMany Yes, we certainly seem to need money to live, and this is what polarises our society, I think.
Everyone wants more and more of it.
"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money."
I have always liked this old Cree Indian saying.
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